🔍Explained: Can ultraviolet light help detect, kill the coronavirus?
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Explained: Can ultraviolet light help detect, kill the coronavirus?
UVGI uses these “destructive properties” of UV light to target pathogens. It is thus considered effective in disinfecting the air and helps in preventing certain infectious diseases from spreading.
🔍Coronavirus numbers explained: New cases start dipping
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Coronavirus numbers explained: New cases start dipping
Never before, since the outbreak began in the first week of March, has there been three straight days of decline in daily numbers. But there is little in it beyond this statistical coincidence, which was partly made possible by the decision of the Delhi government…
🔍Explained: What is the health ministry’s revised discharge policy for COVID-19 patients?
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Explained: What is Health Ministry’s revised discharge policy for Covid-19 patients
Now, as per revised guidelines, after discharge, patients need to follow home isolation for seven days.
🔍Explained: South Pacific Islands have managed to fend off Covid-19
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Explained: How South Pacific Islands have managed to fend off Covid-19
A widespread outbreak of COVID-19 will have a disastrous impact on these island nations. This was one reason why many governments closed their borders to international passengers starting in the last week of January itself, when news of the outbreak first…
🔍Covid’s vitamin D link: What data from 20 countries show
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Explained: What data from 20 countries show on Covid-19’s Vitamin D link
The new study shows that Italy and Spain, both of which have experienced high Covid-19 mortality rates, have lower average vitamin D levels than most northern European countries.
🔍Explained: What labour law changes mean
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Explained: What labour law changes by states mean
Last week, a number of state governments made key changes in the application of labour laws. What are the labour laws in the country, and how can such changes impact firms, their workers, and the economy?
🔍Explained: Why Florence Nightingale matters today, how her legacy is under cloud
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Explained: Why Florence Nightingale matters today, how outbreak threatens her legacy
From her stress on handwashing to the use of data to assess healthcare outcomes, the battle against the pandemic is a constant reminder of her work. Yet the same pandemic threatens to shut down a museum dedicated to her.
🔍Coronavirus numbers explained: After a lull, another spike
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Coronavirus numbers explained: After a lull, another spike
In the last two days, Maharashtra has also reported over 100 deaths. Its death count has now reached 832, which is more than 37 per cent of all deaths in the country.
🔍Explained: Strict liability rule that NGT wants to apply in Vizag gas leak case
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Explained: Strict liability rule that NGT wants to apply in Vizag gas leak case
The rule of strict liability, which has been applied around the world in both civil and criminal law, first evolved in the 1868 British case Rylands vs Fletcher.
🔍Explained: Can the US sue China for coronavirus related damages?
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Explained: Can the United States sue China for coronavirus-related damages?
The US lawsuit against China claims that an “appalling” campaign of “deceit, concealment, misfeasance, and inaction by Chinese authorities unleashed this pandemic.”
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Join us for the second edition of E-xplained by @IndianExpress, in conversation with Nilesh Shah, part-time member of PM's Economic Advisory Council, talking about impact of pandemic on businesses and markets.
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Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020
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🔍National Technology Day: Remembering Pokhran-II nuclear tests
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National Technology Day: Remembering Pokhran-II nuclear tests
Assigned the code name Operation Shakti, the mission was initiated on May 11, 1998. The tests consisted of 5 detonations.
🔍ExplainSpeaking: Are Indian labour laws as inflexible (or pro-worker) as is often claimed?
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ExplainSpeaking: Are Indian labour laws as inflexible (or pro-worker) as is often claimed?
Coronavirus (COVID-19): In the days and weeks ahead, we could see the impact of the summary suspension of labour laws on both job creation and labour welfare.
🔍ExplainSpeaking: The unlockdown die has been cast. Its contours will be visible this week
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ExplainSpeaking: The unlockdown die has been cast. Its contours will be visible this week
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Almost 50 days of the nationwide lockdown has not only begun testing the patience of the population, especially the migrant daily wage workers, but also exacting an economic toll that has started to weigh on the mind of the government.
🔍Explained: New reasons why masks help
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Explained: New reasons why masks help against Covid-19
A series of new studies has reinforced the case for wearing masks as a preventive. A look at the findings on their utility in possibly eliminating Covid, reducing lockdown periods and blocking out droplets
🔍Covid & summer: Still an unsettled question
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Covid & summer: Still an unsettled question
Despite initial suggestions that seasonality would strongly control Covid-19, the researchers said weather only explains 17% of the variation in Covid-19 growth rates.
🔍Why men more vulnerable to coronavirus: now, a link with key enzyme
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Why men more vulnerable to coronavirus: now, a link with key enzyme
The researchers measured ACE2 concentrations in blood samples from several thousand heart failure patients from 11 European countries.
🔍Explained: How will the pandemic play out? Some possible scenarios, from research
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Explained: How will the coronavirus pandemic play out? Some possible scenarios, from research
A study suggests prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022 to prevent the case load from exceeding critical care capacities.
Dear Readers,
The fifth virtual meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss with chief ministers the broad contours of exiting the nationwide lockdown in a calibrated manner was, as expected, a marathon. The meeting lasted for six hours, much to the chagrin (more on that here -- https://www.inexp.in/5lHy00) of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who also seemed upset that he wasn't consulted about partial resumption of passenger train services as he had held the Railways portfolio in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Here is a glimpse of what the states wanted
# Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana and West Bengal were among the states who wanted the lockdown extended further.
# Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra, Bihar and Tamil Nadu had reservations on allowing inter-state movement -- be it rail or air.
# States including Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan wanted to have the authority to decide which districts fall under red, orange and green zones.
The common consensus among states, however, was further easing of lockdown restrictions to resume economic activities. As a minsiter who was present at the meeting has put it, the tone and tenor was akin to a “cat and mouse game” on the issue of lockdown extension and the way forward. There were no concrete suggestions, the minister said.
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* And West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was in a combative mood right from the outset as she accused the Centre of playing politics and taking unilateral decisions. In her primary line her of attack were PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. “Don’t do politics, Amit Shah saheb,” she said in the meeting. She also accused Central officials of holding video-conferences with state officials without keeping her government in the loop.
https://www.inexp.in/B-O-9k
* After uproar over the Aarogya Setu app infringing privacy, the government issued a new set of guidelines to be followed for processing data of the app users. The new rules prohibit the storage of data beyond 180 days and enable individuals to seek deletion of their data from the government’s Aarogya Setu related records within 30 days of raising the request. Previously, the app was allowed to retain the data for 60 days after a Covid-19 patient is cured, and for other users, the personal information is removed from the server after 45 days.
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Meanwhile, former Supreme Court Judge B N Srikrishna, who chaired the committee that came out with the first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, termed the government’s push mandating the use of Aarogya Setu app “utterly illegal”. “Under what law do you mandate it on anyone? So far it is not backed by any law,” the former judge told The Indian Express.
https://www.inexp.in/9IjQPE
Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Gowda also has these seven "burning questions" for the government on the transparency of the contact tracing app.
https://www.inexp.in/cTkbWz
Even in the scenario of lockdown restrictions being completely lifted, masks and social distancing are here to stay until a time the coronvirus is fully eliminated. If you are among those who don't feel comfortable wearing them and are sticklers for WHO guidelines on who should wear them, then think again. Multiple studies have pointed out that masks are very useful, including the home-made ones, as they offer a greater degree of protection against the infection. Read about their impact and all the added advantages here
https://www.inexp.in/2ERoSb
"Whatever life throws at you, put it on the bar and press it." The memory of this poster that adorned the walls of my old gym has stayed with me all these years. As I read about the fitness industry bleeding dry in the current economic crisis, it makes me wonder whether gyms across the country can sweat this one out. Though some chains have begun online coaching, there are just a patch on their actual sales.
https://www.inexp.in/-5WytM
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G
The fifth virtual meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss with chief ministers the broad contours of exiting the nationwide lockdown in a calibrated manner was, as expected, a marathon. The meeting lasted for six hours, much to the chagrin (more on that here -- https://www.inexp.in/5lHy00) of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who also seemed upset that he wasn't consulted about partial resumption of passenger train services as he had held the Railways portfolio in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.
Here is a glimpse of what the states wanted
# Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana and West Bengal were among the states who wanted the lockdown extended further.
# Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra, Bihar and Tamil Nadu had reservations on allowing inter-state movement -- be it rail or air.
# States including Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan wanted to have the authority to decide which districts fall under red, orange and green zones.
The common consensus among states, however, was further easing of lockdown restrictions to resume economic activities. As a minsiter who was present at the meeting has put it, the tone and tenor was akin to a “cat and mouse game” on the issue of lockdown extension and the way forward. There were no concrete suggestions, the minister said.
https://www.inexp.in/UsIrAA
* And West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was in a combative mood right from the outset as she accused the Centre of playing politics and taking unilateral decisions. In her primary line her of attack were PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. “Don’t do politics, Amit Shah saheb,” she said in the meeting. She also accused Central officials of holding video-conferences with state officials without keeping her government in the loop.
https://www.inexp.in/B-O-9k
* After uproar over the Aarogya Setu app infringing privacy, the government issued a new set of guidelines to be followed for processing data of the app users. The new rules prohibit the storage of data beyond 180 days and enable individuals to seek deletion of their data from the government’s Aarogya Setu related records within 30 days of raising the request. Previously, the app was allowed to retain the data for 60 days after a Covid-19 patient is cured, and for other users, the personal information is removed from the server after 45 days.
https://www.inexp.in/GSyrOJ
Meanwhile, former Supreme Court Judge B N Srikrishna, who chaired the committee that came out with the first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, termed the government’s push mandating the use of Aarogya Setu app “utterly illegal”. “Under what law do you mandate it on anyone? So far it is not backed by any law,” the former judge told The Indian Express.
https://www.inexp.in/9IjQPE
Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Gowda also has these seven "burning questions" for the government on the transparency of the contact tracing app.
https://www.inexp.in/cTkbWz
Even in the scenario of lockdown restrictions being completely lifted, masks and social distancing are here to stay until a time the coronvirus is fully eliminated. If you are among those who don't feel comfortable wearing them and are sticklers for WHO guidelines on who should wear them, then think again. Multiple studies have pointed out that masks are very useful, including the home-made ones, as they offer a greater degree of protection against the infection. Read about their impact and all the added advantages here
https://www.inexp.in/2ERoSb
"Whatever life throws at you, put it on the bar and press it." The memory of this poster that adorned the walls of my old gym has stayed with me all these years. As I read about the fitness industry bleeding dry in the current economic crisis, it makes me wonder whether gyms across the country can sweat this one out. Though some chains have begun online coaching, there are just a patch on their actual sales.
https://www.inexp.in/-5WytM
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G
The Indian Express
Delhi Confidential: Extra Time
At PM Narendra Modi's video-conference with chief ministers, the biggest challenge seemed to be time management.